So three months of that at their cited rate of pay will just about cover equipment costs... before you consider taxes.

Makes Amazon seem a good place to work

I have mixed feelings about that.

You know, many young kids actually have a Mac already, and if not, a new Mac and a monthly subscription for Adobe costs a fraction of what 3 months in college costs.

And if you've already spent a couple of years in college studying literature, algebra, music, philosophy, psychology, introduction to business and what not, you might just want some practical experience that within a few months could actually land you a job that provides a decent paycheck.

  you might just want some practical experience that
  within a few months could actually land you a job
  that provides a decent paycheck.

It always struck me as ironic that student engineers, who are on track for well paid jobs, get offered paid internships; but student journalists, who are on course for poorly paid jobs, are expected to do unpaid internships - or even pay to do internships.

I am a little confused as to how that is ironic. Strikes me as anything but that

To vastly over-simplify our economy, we usually expect people with greater ability to pay to pay the same or more for substitutable goods. For example, people with more money can buy fancy coffee from starbucks, while typically people who can't afford that will make do with instant coffee.

In this case, the people with the greater ability to pay have to pay less.

That seems ironic to me, even though I know enough about the economy to understand why it happens.

There are far more English lit grads that are competing for any job with a "publisher" or "journalism"

Also newspapers are well known for poverty level wages even when they had 30% profit margin.

A major publisher can pick and chose from ox-bridge grads who got a first.

sorry where are these well paid engineers?

So rich kids whose mommy or daddy brought them a mac - not what I woudl be looking for

They probably require you to install Java as well. Barbarians …

At least it is possible to "rent" all the Adobe Creative Suite software for 75$ a month.